CVE-2023-34018

FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-34018 is a Stored Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting the SoundCloud Shortcode plugin for WordPress, specifically versions up to and including 3.1.0. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 4.8) requires high privileges and user interaction for exploitation, allowing an attacker to inject malicious scripts into web pages, potentially leading to data theft or defacement. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:soundcloud:soundcloud_shortcode::::::wordpress::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

Exploitability Score

1.7

Impact Score

3.7

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

0.40%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

32.4%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0040 is in the 47th percentile among its peer group of 4,931 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

patchstack.com / database/vulnerability/soundcloud-shortcode/wordpress-soundcloud-shortcode-plugin-3-1-0-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability

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